you see, unemployment's going down in ohio, down in iowa, down a bit in virginia, all key battlegrounds. if your state is yellow, that's bad news. nevada, a big battleground state. north carolina sort of bleak on that front, colorado. so if you look at the map this way, some states the president can make the case things are better. in others, it's a tougher sell. >> we've seen the trouble romney has had in some states, like ohio, to highlight how bad things are going, and in some states republicans are saying how well things are going. how does the romney campaign deal with that? >> it is a problem with the romney campaign. some of the republican governors like john kasich touting their state economies at the republican convention a short while ago. romney says it's because of the republican governors that the states are doing well, and the numbers romney campaign keeps going back, they keep coming back to 40 months of unemployment over 8%. 23 million people out of work or struggling to find employment. they say those are the numbers that matter. just the other day, anderson, the fed de